**About the Editor**

#### **Koji Mikami**

Dr. Koji Mikami is a professor at the Department of Integrative Studies of Plant and Animal Production in School of Food Industrial Sciences of the Miyagi University, Sendai, Japan from October 1, 2020. Before 2006, his studied development and environmental stress response in terrestrial plants, like angiosperm *Arabidopsis thaliana* and moss *Physcomitrium patens*, most of which were done at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Free University of Berlin, Germany. After joining to the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan from 2006, his main interests changed to physiological and molecular biological researches on marine plants, especially red seaweeds. His efforts have paid for elucidation of regulatory mechanisms of diploid-haploid life cycle and also for development of reverse-genetic experimental methods. Additional fields of interest are the mechanisms regulating response to environmental stress and acquisition of stress tolerance in red seaweeds. His research activity is summarized in, for instance, more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 10 chapters in books. He has published two books as an editor. He is editorial board member of several international journals and has edited several Special Issues.
